apple filed a complaint against ericson last month. ericson up a month to $12.93 and apple, 1.5% to $128.46, the downside there. purchased 4 million of shares of the stock. the ceo paid about $25 million for the shares. purchased at average price of $4.92. shares sprinted to $5.12. >> monster beverage after reacting to the energy drink's strong earnings to continuing international sales growth. monster also said that it and coca-cola have expanded some aspects of their strategic partnership. and that boosted shares of monster up 13% today. they finished at $141.12 but coca-cola, coke there owns 16% stake in monster. it was up 2% to $43.40-and carl icon suffered first annual loss since 2008. icon enterprises said the collapse in oil prices was the main culprit, however, the performance of apple shares which is the fund's largest holding helped mute the impact of falling oil. icon enterprises off nearly 2% today to $97.67. now to our market monitor who's positive on equities with the stock picks he said will benefit from the strong u.s.

senior vice president at ericson and cisco's senior vice president, talk about their companies and thetechnology in which the internet, emotional phones and cloud operate. >> we talk a lot about something we call the network society. it is a society where everything that can benefit from having a connection will actually have one and we put a vision forward in 2009 in barcelona in the trade show that's going on there of the 50 billion connective devices in 2020, which has caught on very well in the world. and that i think opened many people's minds that the mobile industry is not limited to the smart phones and devices we carry around personally. it is a great technology to correct so many other things and to be able to build a better society based on those kinds of technologies. >> the internet started with this thing that people neated to get to somehow by dial up connection connections et cetera. we brought the ber net from that thing somewhere to your home. we brought that internet from being your home to be with every device you carry around. the next stage of the internet is abou

senior vice president at ericson, and senior vice president talk about their companies and the technology in which the internet mobile phones and the cloud operate. >> we talk about something we call the network society. the network society is a society where everything that can benefit from having a connection will actually have one. and we put a vision forward in 2009 in barcelona in the trade show that's going on there of the 50 billion connected devices in 2020. which has caught on very well in the world. that opened many people's minds that the mobile industry is not limited to the smart phones and the devices that we carry around personally. it also is a great technology to connect so many other things and to be able to build a better society based on those technologies. >> the internet started with this thing people needed to get to with a dialup connection. we brought it from that thing somewhere to your home. we brought it from being your home to be with every device you carry around. the next stage is about taking it from all these mobile devices, to things, information and conn

. >> steven ericson from hofstra university. mr. press, you touched upon what i was going to ask. but realistically, i find it increasingly difficult for the republican party to win a national election considering the demographic changes and how the electoral college is structured. what do you think they could realistically do to change their perception as the old white man's party in the next few years. >> more for the riens previs. >> that they come to the conclusion that they have to do a better job of reaching out beyond the older white male base and reach out to women and latinos and african-americans and do so with their program and their policy and agenda. that is what the report said. lindsey graham after the 2012 election said republicans -- i'm paraphrasing here, but we'll never win the white house unless we show that we're the party of in collusion and -- inclusion and diversity. and ryan prevus said i include it. >> and that is why they push jeb bush bush. he is from florida. he is married to a spanish woman. he speaks spanish. and if you take florida off, they can win